The Russian invasion of Ukraine has claimed the lives of no less than 16 youngsters and left one other 112 injured, in keeping with the newest reviews from the jap European nation.
The Mirror reviews that Vladimir Putin's troops are utilizing controversial banned cluster bombs of their shelling of Ukrainian buildings - together with in a strike towards a kindergarten that killed two adults and a toddler.
One other exploded within the north-east metropolis of Kharkiv, with surprising footage filmed with the permission of emergency docs.
A few of the harrowing pictures are heartbreaking. Most of them are so horrifically graphic they can't be printed right here.
However their mother and father insist the world ought to see what Vladimir Putin is doing to their households.
A six-year-old woman was killed whereas she was sporting her pink unicorn pyjamas.
The unnamed woman died when a shell hit her mother and father' condo in Mariupol.
Regardless of frantic efforts to save lots of her, she died.
Through the rescue try, a physician in blue medical scrubs, pumping oxygen into the woman, appeared immediately into the video digicam capturing the scene.
He shouts angrily: "Present this to Putin. The eyes of this little one, and crying docs."
A girl, believed to be her mum, is carrying the woman's slippers, a pompom scarf and bobble hat.
Then the woman's dad, holding his lifeless kid's hand, because the paramedic performs CPR on her tiny physique.
He's crying whereas coated in blood. A staff of docs then carry her into the hospital.
Seven docs work on her physique, which continues to be being gripped by her praying father.
The ultimate picture exhibits the kid alone on a gurney in an empty ward, having been declared lifeless.
She and 15 others have paid the last word value.
One other 112 have been injured - some with life-changing accidents.
The Deputy Mayor of Kyiv shared a photograph of an 11-year-old woman named Polina, who was killed whereas in a automotive together with her household.
She was in her final yr of main faculty and died whereas making an attempt to flee the capital in a automotive together with her mother and father.
Her youthful brother and sister have been taken to hospital, the place they're in intensive care.
The mayor mentioned: "Her title was Polina. She studied within the 4th grade of faculty in Kyiv.
"This morning on Teligi her and her mother and father have been shot by Russian DRG."
Elsewhere, seven-year-old Alisa Hlans was killed within the cluster bomb assault that hit the kindergarten in Okhtyrka.
Amnesty Worldwide mentioned cluster bombs - which include a number of deadly explosive submunitions - have been getting used.
Secretary basic Agnes Callamard mentioned: "There is no such thing as a doable justification for dropping cluster munitions in populated areas, not to mention close to a faculty."
She tweeted: "Cluster munitions kill little one and two different civilians taking shelter at a preschool in Ukraine.
"This assault bears all of the hallmarks of Russia use of this banned and inherently indiscriminate weapon, and exhibits flagrant disregard for civilian life."
One other boy was killed when a block of flats caught hearth after being shelled in Chuhuiv, a small city outdoors Ukraine's second metropolis Kharkiv.
Kids together with these identified with most cancers have been moved to the basement of Okhmatdyt Kids's Hospital. Combating was fiercest within the jap metropolis of Kharkiv.
Anton Herashchenko, an adviser to Kyiv's inside minister mentioned Russian troops had bombarded residential areas with Grad missiles, saying: "Dozens have been killed and tons of wounded!
"The entire world should see this horror! Loss of life to the occupiers!"
Whereas preventing continued throughout the nation the anticipated large Russian air blitz didn't happen.
Kyiv was pretty quiet in a single day however there's a enormous Russian construct up of tanks 20 miles to the north.
Chernihiv within the north-east confronted heavy shelling from Russian troops in a single day, however remained in Ukrainian palms.
Mariupol residents mentioned the port metropolis on the ocean of Azov was surrounded by Russian forces and beneath heavy assault.
The Ministry of Defence tweeted an intelligence replace on the state of affairs.
It mentioned: "The majority of Putin's floor forces stay greater than 30km to the north of Kyiv their advance having been slowed by Ukrainian forces defending Hostomel airfield, a key Russian goal for day one of many battle.
"Heavy preventing continues round Chernihiv and Kharkiv nevertheless each cities stay beneath Ukrainian management.
"Logistical failures and staunch Ukrainian resistance proceed to frustrate the Russian advance.
"Regardless of continued makes an attempt to suppress particulars of the battle from the Russian inhabitants, the Russian Armed Forces has for the primary time been pressured to acknowledge struggling casualties."
One feminine Ukrainian MP - Kira Rudik, the chief of the Voice occasion within the parliament - mentioned she was assured she might shoot a Russian soldier if one got here to her residence.
She mentioned: "I haven't got any plans to go away. That is my metropolis, that is my nation, and I plan to defend it for so long as can be wanted.
"There is no such thing as a probability that some Russian loopy dictator would have the ability to push me away from the place I stay and the place I really like."
Rudik is one in every of many who've taken up the provide of arming themselves, with navy forces seeking to bolster key positions.
She mentioned: "We obtained rifles within the Ukrainian parliament and for the final couple of days I used to be coaching to make use of it, so proper now I am fairly assured I'd have the ability to shoot someone if they arrive to my residence.
"I assembled a resistance crew which now consists of 15 individuals, and we have been in a position to arise for ourselves and assist our military patrol the streets."
Tonight it emerged Ukrainian troopers who have been reportedly killed on Snake Island are nonetheless alive, in keeping with a press release posted on Fb by Ukraine's naval providers.
"We're very pleased to be taught that our brothers are alive and properly," the assertion mentioned.
It continued: "The sailors rebuked twice the assaults of the Russian invaders however might not proceed to guard the island."
Ukrainian officers mentioned roughly 5,300 Russian troops have been killed and claimed that 191 tanks, 29 fighter jets, 29 helicopters and 816 armoured personnel carriers have been destroyed by Ukraine's forces.
The United Nations' refugee company mentioned 422,000 individuals have fled Ukraine to neighbouring nations.
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